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Just a quick observation. I was using Windows Media Player as my media server. Not hard to setup and worked sufficiently. What I didn't like was the lack of configuration choices. Then, I installed VLC after reading the many great reviews of it. Holy smokes, one full day later, and after many many m...

Sami32 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:34 am @rh1234 Sony have habit to append an asterisk to the filename of the media when their name is not DLNA compliant.
So you can safely ignore it as long your media play, other way just rename your media file.

Thank you Sami32. I will give the renaming method a try. Appreciate your reply.

I did a search on "asterisk" and only found a few hits, none of them related to my question. So... I'm posting here. I installed the latest version of UMS and so far seems to work great serving movies to my wireless Sony Blue Ray player/TV. I have noticed, however, that on several of the l...